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Feb 23, 2021 12:37pm Providers won't be penalized for potential HIPAA violations related to good faith use of web-based tools to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments. (Getty/andrei_r) Healthcare organizations won't be penalized for potential Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations related to the good faith use of online or web-based scheduling applications for COVID-19 vaccine appointments. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services announced (PDF) this week that it won't enforce fines against providers when using...

Interactive voice response (IVR) systems are now hubs for both customer care and associated fraud. This document describes how an end-to-end approach that spans

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Thursday, February 18, 2021 The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced another settlement involving investigations under its Right of Access Initiative. This settlement, the sixteenth such agreement under the Initiative, involves San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare, doing business as Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Centers (SRMC). In the settlement, OCR alleged that it received a complaint on June 11, 2019, that SRMC “failed to timely respond” to a patient’s request to electronically access his medical records. OCR provided technical assistance to SRMC and closed the case. O...

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